Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane's dismal record, however, does not deter Frederick Smith, 37, who in 1973 risked a personal inheritance of $3.5 million to launch Federal Express. Smith believes the Concorde's revenues could more than double if he converted it from passenger to package service. Says he optimistically: "It is a potentially lucrative venture." If Smith is right, the Concorde may eventually become more than just a winged white elephant...
...years, computers have been ballyhooed as a miraculous wave of the future in elementary education. The miracle never arrived. In the 1970s manufacturers spent millions of dollars to develop computers for use in schools, but most of the systems received dismal grades on teacher report cards. The machines were too expensive, their performance unreliable, their programs academically inadequate. But lately, with the advent of the more sophisticated microcomputers, prices have fallen and performance has vastly improved...
...economy's dismal performance under Carter cannot entirely explain Reagan's appeal to working class voters, nor can the ex-president's apparently inept handling of foreign policy. At least as much of the answer lies with the vast divergence in economic conditions and resulting political interests among the nation's workers. Painting stagnation in the economy as a consequence of excessive taxation and regulation, while blaming inflation on social welfare programs and the government deficit, Reagan provided a vision of future policies that could indeed jibe with the interests of a large group or organized labor...
Another potential problem concerns the question of how minority students will be represented. Currently, plans contain no special provisions to insure a certain number of minority students on the council. Some students clearly find this situation unacceptable. "In light of Student Assembly's prior dismal record in incorporating minority viewpoints, I think there needs to be concrete provisions insuring adequate input from the minority sector," Vada Hill '82, the Black Students Association (BSA) representative to the Student Assembly and a member of the constitutional committee, says. "As it stands now, the constitution has no viable means of insuring minority representation...
...SEZS, and they have accepted some needed reforms. Government bureaucrats are yielding more and more management control to the visiting capitalists, who can now name their own local bosses in some instances. Soon foreign managers will have the leeway to hire and fire workers. Output was dismal at the Electrical & Electronics Ltd. appliance plant until Owner Y.K. Chen insisted on bringing in his own supervisors to direct the operation. The factory is now run by Yip Shao-Chen, 24, a woman from the ranks of the assembly line...